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My name is Tarun Kumar Agarwal. I am currently an assistant professor at IIT Gandhinagar, India. Before April 2021, I was a postdoctoral researcher in the NanoTCAD group at ETH Zurich. Prior to that, I did my Ph.D. at IMEC, in Belgium where I was trying to find an answer to a broad but intriguing research question: Do emerging two-dimensional (2D) materials-based transistors have the potential to replace contemporary Silicon MOSFETs for high-performance computing?
In my Ph.D. thesis, I developed a material-device-circuit co-design approach, which aids in holistically assessing an emerging technology for a target application. I applied this approach to two different test cases: 1) 2D materials-based MOSFETs for high-performance computing, and 2) 2D materials-based TFETs for low-power computing. Using this approach, I could answer which are the most promising 2D materials and device designs for these test cases (Thesis link).
I'm a Master's Student at IIT Gandhinagar in the discipline of Electrical Engineering. My area of specialization is Microelectronics and VLSI Design. I completed my BTech from the National Institute of Technology Mizoram in ECE in 2021. In My bachelor's, I worked on FinFET (Link). My area of Interest is Memory Design, Emerging Devices for Digital Circuits, In-Memory Processing, Emerging Logic and Memory devices beyond CMOS, Semiconductor Device Modeling, PDK Development, Semiconductor Fabrication, ML-assisted CAD tools, Low Power VLSI Design, Chip Design and Verification. My WebPage-Link
I finished my undergraduate in Electronics and communication from West bengal university of technology. After that, I worked in TATA CONSULTANCY SERVICES(TCS) as a Systems Engineer. I went on to pursue my Master's in Electrical and computer engineering from the University of Florida in Gainesville. My specialization was electronic devices. I performed research work on MoS2-based FET and compared its performance advantage with ultra-thin body MOSFET. Currently, I am pursuing my Ph.D. at IIT Gandhinagar. My current research interests include 2D material-based devices, and modeling of quantum transport in 2D devices.